Bart’s Books

Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez are now recognized as two of the greatest cartoonists in the history of the medium — award-winning, world-renowned, critically acclaimed.

Poetry and piano with Justin Johnson

Join us in the courtyard for a talk on California’s first languages with Leanne Hinton. Leanne will be joined by local Chumash tribal leader Matthew Vestuto and the ever-growing mitsqanaqan̓ (Ventureño Chumash) speaking community.

Arranging ofrendas. Brewing pericón into a healing tea. Releasing traumas through baños and limpias. In this book readers will learn the Indigenous, African, and European roots of curanderismo. Atava shares her personal journey as a healer and those of thirteen other inspirational curanderas serving their communities.The Curanderx Toolkit includes more than 25 profiles of plants of Baja and Alta California and teaches you to grow, know, and love them.

Artist and founder of The Painting School Sara Woster invites readers into the vibrant world of painting as a creative practice powerful enough to transform our lives. Woster is a painter, teacher, and art evangelist. She believes in art as a form of mindfulness, a ritual for healing, and an outlet for self-expression. In Painting Can Save Your Life, Woster welcomes readers into this transformative art form, inviting them to pick up a brush and discover how painting can help you see the world in a whole new way.

Saturday, May 13th at 6:00 pm we are happy to host a free event with Patagonia author Steve Hawley around his new book Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World.

New from Duke University’s Practices Series-- books by and about amateurs in the original sense– those who engage in pursuits out of sheer love and fascination, Juggling by Stewart Lawrence Sinclair is a whimsical, scientific, and embodied book with local roots. The author learned to juggle at the Boys and Girls Club in Ventura.

Saturday, August 12th 6:30-8pm Bart’s Books Storytelling and music in the Bart's courtyard with The Townies, Inc., StoryWorks, and Tim Cummings

California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick joins us for an evening of readings and reflections on the place of poetry in our lives.

Join James Beard award-winning cookbook author and chef Amy Thielen for a conversation about her new book "Company: The Radically Casual Art of Cooking for Others,"

LA Times' Rosanna Xia in conversation with Dr. Stephanie Mendes on Xia's new book California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline

Join local art and culture writer Stacie Stukin in conversation with Adam Blackman of the famed design duo Adam Blackman and David Cruz.